The 10 best cafés to work from in Tbilisi

Working from a café is normal in Tbilisi. Of the 68 cafés in our directory, 45 welcome laptops and 9 keep them to one area; only a few say no. These 10 are the best rated of the ones that welcome them, by the people who went there.

1. 

   01 Saburtalo · Medical University metro, ~10 min walk

   Yumfeel

   • Laptops welcome
2. 

   02 Chugureti · Station Square metro, ~9 min walk

   Tsvari Roasters

   Tsvari Roasters is a specialty coffee shop in Tbilisi that roasts and serves its own coffee and aims to inspire its guests. It offers gentle coffee for starting the morning, a setting built for taking things slowly, talking and finding some everyday inspiration, and beans roasted fresh and brewed with care each day.

   • Laptops welcome
3. 

   03 Sololaki · Rustaveli metro, ~4 min walk

   SPOT by CHITI

   • Laptops welcome
4. 

   04 Old Tbilisi · Liberty Square metro, ~8 min walk

   Sali Coffee

   • Laptops welcome
5. 

   05 Sololaki · Rustaveli metro, ~4 min walk

   But First Cacao

   • Laptops welcome
6. 

   06 Vake · Rustaveli metro, ~20 min walk

   Mikel Coffee

   • Laptops welcome
7. 

   07 Sololaki · Rustaveli metro, ~10 min walk

   Coffee Lars

   A calm café in an old mansion near Rustaveli, with sofas, a balcony and work tables upstairs.

   • Laptops welcome
8. 

   08 Old Tbilisi · Liberty Square metro, ~5 min walk

   Daily Grind

   Daily Grind is a small coffee shop where Kote Afkhazi meets Dumas Street, close to Freedom Square, furnished with sofas and high stools. People do bring laptops, but seating is limited.

   • Laptops welcome
9. 

   09 Vera · Rustaveli metro, ~13 min walk

   Sol

   • Laptops welcome
10. 

    10 Vake

    Coffee LAB Axis

    An elegant café for the professionals and office workers of the Axis Towers who take their coffee seriously. A favourite for meetings and lunch breaks, it's calm, serves gourmet dishes and pours excellent coffee.

    • Laptops welcome

At a glance

Before you open your laptop

• Order as you go. A coffee every couple of hours, and lunch if you stay through it, keeps everyone happy.
• Mind the lunch rush. Between one and three the tables turn into lunch tables. Mornings are the quietest.
• Ask for a socket. Not every table has one, so pick your seat by the wall.
• Keep calls short. Step outside for anything long, or book a meeting room.
• The Wi-Fi password is often on the receipt or a card by the till.

Chains you'll see everywhere

PAUL has 6 branches in our directory, 5 of them laptop-friendly; Coffee LAB has 6 branches in our directory, 3 of them laptop-friendly; Shavi Coffee Roasters has 5 branches in our directory; Santino has 2 branches in our directory; BNKR has 2 branches in our directory, all of them laptop-friendly; and Puri Guliani has 2 branches in our directory, 1 of them laptop-friendly. Handy when you want something you know, wherever you are.

A café or a coworking day pass?

For a few hours of email, a café wins. For a full day with calls, a coworking day pass (₾35 at the median) often costs about the same as a day of coffee and lunch, with a proper chair, steady Wi-Fi and a quiet room for calls. The cheapest: the cheapest coworking in Tbilisi.

Questions people ask

Can I work on a laptop in cafés in Tbilisi?

In most of them, yes: 45 of the 68 cafés we list welcome laptops. Some keep them to one room or one floor; each café's page says which. More: working from cafés in Tbilisi.

Which neighbourhood has the most laptop-friendly cafés?

Vake (12), Chugureti (7) and Old Tbilisi (6). Every one, on a map: work cafés in Tbilisi.

How we picked

Cafés that welcome laptops, in the order of how the people who went there rate them, weighed by how many gave a rating. Nobody pays to be on this list.

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